Assignments:

Prompt I: Due 4/12/06

Make something with your hands. It has been argued that because of new technologies that the body has become obsolete. Yet for many contemporary artists the physical engagement with the process of making is critical to the art. Some would say that computer art has perilously lost the direct connection with the body. As computer artists how is your expression related to issues of the body? What does hand made mean in our virtual realm of the computer interface?

Prompt 2: Due 5/1/06

This the age of "smart" refrigerator and cell phone orchestras. More and more of the tools we use in our daily lives do not stand alone in isolation but are networked parts of wider distributed databases. Our screens are always full of multiple layers of information and we talk of multitasking. In this context we as a culture seem more concerned with the myriad of interconnections and relations than single unified wholes. Can we create a group project that facilitates a networked distributive collaborative process and create a site specific public work?

Prompt 3: Due 5/17/06

Create a project where the interaction mirrors or enacts a psychological condition or emotional state. For the interactive artist the meaning of the work is expressed not only through the images and symbols on the screen but by the kinds of interaction through which viewer/participant engage the work. This project emphasizes the interactivity by asking you focus on how the interactions themselves might express a mental state.